Home Improvements

Household Cleaning Tips

Bathroom and Toilet

Use bleach to clean your toilet. Spread the bleach all across the toilet bowl, let it settle for 10 minutes, then brush around a bit, before you wash it down with water.

Clean your bath fittings with a little white vinegar mixed with equal quantity of water. Once you finished scrubbing them clean, wipe them off with a dry cloth.

You can prepare a liquid soap by diluting all the left over soap bars and use them to wash your sink.

If your sink doesnA?a��a�?t drain water well, try putting down some hot water. It will certainly clean the pipe.

Kitchen

Rinse glasses with vinegar water to get rid of sour smell.

If your plastic ware smells of the food that was last stored in it, fill it with some lukewarm water mixed with a little bit of lemon juice or vinegar.

You can also pour a quarter cup of vinegar in the rinse cycle for sparkling dishes.

To clean the stove, use baking soda to scrub the tough stains. Let baking soda settle and fight the tough stains before you wipe it clean.

To get rid of odor in your microwave oven, take half a cup of lemon juice and mix it with a microwave-safe dish of tap water and heat this mixture on high power setting for a few minutes. Carefully take the dish out and leave the door of your oven open to allow the air out.

In order to clean the white stains of your dish washing sink pour in half a cup of salt and scrub it with a lemon. Let it settle for a few minutes before you wash it down.

Wipe your washed sink with a clean cloth or a paper towel to prevent water from staining it.

Doors and Windows

To clean glass windows, sprinkle some water on the windows and wipe it with an old newspaper piece till the window cleans up.

You can also sprinkle a solution of white vinegar and water, put it in a spray bottle and use it as a cleaning liquid.

To clean your wooden doors off dust, especially within the intricate woodcarvings, use a paintbrush to dust it clean.

Use vacuum cleaner to clean off the dust at the base of the windowpanes.

General Household

Use ketchup with toothpaste to clean your copper ware. Let this mixture settle for a few minutes before the rinse.

In order to keep your garbage cans clean, always keep a polythene packet inside, so that the garbage gets dumped in the packet instead of the bin.

To clean the bin off tough stains, use bleach, toilet cleaner or laundry detergent. Let it settle for a few minutes, then use a long brush to scrub the bin clean before the final rinse.

To keep your wooden furniture sparkling and shining, first clean off the dirt with a clean cloth, then apply a mixture of lemon juice and a little bit of vegetable oil over your furniture with a cloth.

To remove dust from your sofa set, vacuum over it.

In order to keep your leather sofas or rexine sofas as good as new, wipe them with a shoe polishing brush that hasnA?a��a�?t been used for shoes.

Floor and Wall

Sweep and vacuum the floor to clean it.

To mop use a cleaning liquid that gives the floor a fresh fragrance too.